Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to be nice to each other on a basketball court. They're supposed to trash talk, stuff, thump their chests, maybe even throttle a coach or kick a photographer in the 'nads. But to stand still so an injured player from the other team can shoot a free basket and break a school record? That kind of nonsense has no place in a gymnasium...
...game. That premeditated pitch to Mantle was hushed up for years, whereas the Sales shot was a surreal, Broadway-like moment. After letting UConn win the tipoff, the opposing Villanova players stood silently on their side as a player ceremoniously dribbled the ball to the basket and handed it to the flat-footed Sales, who finished the stilted pas de deux by banking an ugly one off the backboard; then Villanova evened the game with an uncontested shot of its own. The backstage maneuverings were even more contrived. Geno Auriemma, UConn's coach, devised the stunt, then suggested...
...there are still has some issues to deal with before women's sports can complete the journey from cute to compelling. They'll figure it out. Even Sales, a superb, unselfish athlete, instinctively knows that her basket was empty because in lacking truth, it lacked beauty. "I think it would have been a lot better if I was playing," she says. "I wasn't sure at first. But Coach said it was a gift from him to me." Maybe women's sports don't need gifts from men. After all, the last time a basketball story made the front page...
...change last week, though, was a real haircut. For the first time in 11 years, the BLS compiled a new "market basket" of goods to track, adding things like cellular phones and auto leases and making personal computers more prominent. The BLS, which monitors some 80,000 items, added one major category, education and communication, catapulting the CPI into the information age. All the latest revisions will shave about .1 of a percentage point off the annual rate, bringing the four-year cumulative effect on the CPI to .6 of a percentage point. The White House predicts that turning...
...just as likely to bully her way to the basket for a lay-up while drawing a foul as she is to spot up for a three-pointer and bury a shot in her opponent's face. She is, in nearly all respects, awesome to watch. But the AP voters would never know of her PTP-ness--as Dickie V would say--because they have not watched her play in person...